Her new voice lines are super cool! But paired with her old voice lines it is very jarring. I understand that the goal is probably to re-record all her voice lines, but it feels like the new chirpier version of her takes away from her personality. It sounds really forced and high-pitched, and way more positive than she was originally. I think there is a middle ground between those two versions. Even if she were to keep her new style of talking, there needs to be more variation in her tone. It doesn’t make sense for her to have the same positive inflection for every action she does.
More importantly, her voice lines seem to trigger way too often, seemingly more than other heroes, to a point where it is distracting. If she switches beams or goes from damage to healing, she immediately goes omg i’m healing or omg i’m dmg boosting! as opposed to previously where she would say it occasionally when she was doing that stuff. It’s distracting from other more important game sounds especially when it pops up so often.
I’m sure this would be added but she also doesn’t have a voice line when she pings for resurrect.
For now you should treat everything in OW2 beta as a place holder.
Until we get word from blizzard that the voice lines that were added are final.
Sounds like you’ve heard them for yourself and therefor played beta….if so then this should prob go in the beta forums…you should have access
To add to that voice work is typically one of the last things you do in a game because it’s something you want locked in before you schedule a VA.
Are we playing the same beta?
It´s…awfull…
Mercy is supposed to be somewhat cynical with a wry sense of humor. I always got the feeling that she cares deeply for others out of a sense of obligation and duty. Not sure the new voice lines fit but maybe she’s changed as a person?
Now she sounds like she had too much weed xD
“Wow…Cringe” - D.Va (Overwatch 2 Beta)
The characters always had wired personalities, but now it’s like they’re on crack on top of that for some of them lmao. I’m still not sure if like it. They do seem a little less one-note.
The content of the voice lines are cool, not how she says it or how often she says it
Her new voice lines aren’t super cool at all. It is absolutely terrible I couldnt bare playing mercy ! But other heroes got this weird lines tons too I have the feeling. Just way less.
Mercy is literally talking every 10 seconds (which is super annyoing) plus she is saying retarded stuff like "I am dmg boosting you " “I am healing you” “you dont look good at all” like yes we see it we dont need a line for it. It is just flooding the game with too much informations which are useless.
Imagine now all heroes got this kind of lines every 10seconds in the fight? what a nightmare. Plus they changed her ton she just sounds like a retarded robot now. And like a super cheap voice acting. I don’t understand what they are trying to do there. Please blizzard just don’t do that let the voices and line during the game the way it is in ow1.
I had to switch from Mercy to Ana 2 minutes into the game because the cracked cheerleader kept screaming into my ears.
yes and not a lot of recorded voice lines do not get into the game and large studios usually do things in parallel. it’s more; collect as mutch as lines as possible that you may use than to know what lines you really want.
Large studios typically do not record voice lines until the very end. Most of the voices after all are not in house so you do not want to have to keep booking voice actors, who get paid by line, and throwing out their work when it isnt how you like it. You have the surrounding soundwork done, you may even have someone in office doing a practice reading of the lines so you can see how it would sound relative to everything else, and then once everything is how you like you schedule the VA to come in and record their lines.